During three weeks we are going to create a full-of-art and artists atmosphere in our building. We are going to work on different parts of it, using different materials. We have to use them correctly and be careful, otherwise, we'll leave a deep print.
Due to pandemic issues, it is necessary to take care of distances, materials, and tools, and behave correctly. To create this atmosphere it is fundamental to respect the environment and the facilities, to behave in a correct way, and to use the materials and paintings responsibly. This way we’ll reach very positive results.
Due to pandemic issues, it is necessary to take care of distances, materials, and tools, and behave correctly. To create this atmosphere it is fundamental to respect the environment and the facilities, to behave in a correct way, and to use the materials and paintings responsibly. This way we’ll reach very positive results.
INTRODUCTION
You are going to draw and interpret compositions by the artist and activist Keith Haring. You are going to paint on continuous white paper, windows, and blackboards.
His images symbolize many of the values we work and develop in our secondary school institute: tolerance, friendship, animal care, preservation of nature, love, life, death, social problems, and so on.
We are going to convey this idea to the neighborhood, interpreting and showing these compositions.
His images symbolize many of the values we work and develop in our secondary school institute: tolerance, friendship, animal care, preservation of nature, love, life, death, social problems, and so on.
We are going to convey this idea to the neighborhood, interpreting and showing these compositions.
MATERIALS
Depending on the instructions received from your teacher, you are going to use any of the following materials: continuous paper, pencils, charcoal pencils, colored chalks, markers, gouache, chalk markers to paint on the windows, wax crayons, pastel crayons.
WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO WORK?
You'll work in the corridors, hall, class, and anywhere you are assigned.
DEVELOPMENT
TASK 1: KNOWING THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK
ACTIVITY 1
Read carefully the following information about this author.
Keith Haring was an artist and a social activist whose work reflects the spirit of the urban street culture of New York City during the ‘80s.
Birth, death, love, sex, war, are recurrent issues in his works.
He studied semiotics, the science of signs, and discovered that images can work as words. ‘The drawings had become almost a dictionary’, said Haring.
In 1980 he started doing graffiti, drawing images similar to those of the cartoons with a marker over the advertisings in the subway of New York. Later he drew stories with white chalk over the black panels reserved for advertising in the subway. In 1989 he created the Keith Haring Foundation with the goal of fighting to solve social problems.
The typical iconography of his simple drawings includes animals and dancing figures, dogs, babies crawling, pyramids, televisions, telephones, and flayings saucers.
Artists like Haring searched for making more accessible images, simple and generic enough to be accepted by anyone.
ACTIVITY 1
Read carefully the following information about this author.
Keith Haring was an artist and a social activist whose work reflects the spirit of the urban street culture of New York City during the ‘80s.
Birth, death, love, sex, war, are recurrent issues in his works.
He studied semiotics, the science of signs, and discovered that images can work as words. ‘The drawings had become almost a dictionary’, said Haring.
In 1980 he started doing graffiti, drawing images similar to those of the cartoons with a marker over the advertisings in the subway of New York. Later he drew stories with white chalk over the black panels reserved for advertising in the subway. In 1989 he created the Keith Haring Foundation with the goal of fighting to solve social problems.
The typical iconography of his simple drawings includes animals and dancing figures, dogs, babies crawling, pyramids, televisions, telephones, and flayings saucers.
Artists like Haring searched for making more accessible images, simple and generic enough to be accepted by anyone.
Look at the paintings and observe that they are apparently simple figures and that they catch up our attention very easily while conveying joy and optimism.
They are figures that we can perceive interacting between them, enriching this way the feelings and messages they send us. The key is the artist's development of an ingenious and sensible drawing. The way he curves and breaks the outline along with the strength of the primary and secondary colors stands out the shapes without needing any other tools to reach the viewer completely. |
ACTIVITY 2
Now you have learned a bit about Keith Haring and graffiti, do some individual sketches inspired by him and his work. Think of any interaction between your work and any architectural element in the building. You have to convey an important social message with your drawings. Both interaction and message have to be decided by the team before starting to work. You are going to use A4 sheets, pencils, and markers. When you finish you have to upload it to the classroom individually. It is worth 20% of the mark. You have 2 sessions to do activities 1 and 2. |
TASK 2: MINI-MURAL
Once you have done the individual sketches, join all members' drawings in just one unique drawing and create a MINI-MURAL, keeping the interaction and the message.
You are going to draw on A3 sheets or continuous paper (your teacher would decide it).
When you finish you have to upload it to the classroom individually.
It is worth 30% of the mark. You have 2 sessions for this task.
Once you have done the individual sketches, join all members' drawings in just one unique drawing and create a MINI-MURAL, keeping the interaction and the message.
You are going to draw on A3 sheets or continuous paper (your teacher would decide it).
When you finish you have to upload it to the classroom individually.
It is worth 30% of the mark. You have 2 sessions for this task.
TASK 3: APPLICATION
The teachers would assign the spaces and the materials to draw on: the windows of the classes, the blackboard in the hall, or a continuous paper (in the class or in the corridor). You are going to draw your small sketches on a bigger scale on another support. First of all, you have to plan where the figures may go and who is going to do each part. If you are going to paint on the windows remember to do the outline first and then do another outline in yellow if possible. In some figures, you can paint a dintorno or the silhouette. It is worth 30% of the mark. You have 3 sessions for this task. |
Here you have some examples of your mates from previous years.
Don't forget to put the name of the team (on the paper, on the window, or on the hall blackboard). Put under each figure the name of the author. Then take a picture and upload it to the classroom.
Comment on the classroom the feelings and sensations and the messages you think your figures convey. Give your teacher the papers you have generated after taking the pictures. |
TASK 4: VIDEO FOR TV MAGAZINE
In each session the Planner of the team has to take at least one or two pictures of the table showing the work of all the members of the team, more or less at the end of the session, to leave evidence of the process of work.
These pictures have to be put into a video and uploaded to the Google Classroom in the task "Visual proofs".
It is worth 10% of the mark. You have a session to do this task.
These pictures have to be put into a video and uploaded to the Google Classroom in the task "Visual proofs".
It is worth 10% of the mark. You have a session to do this task.
Don't forget to fill in the registration form and upload it to the classroom. It is worth 10% of the mark.
HOW ARE WE GOING TO EVALUATE THIS PROJECT?
You are going to get two marks: one team mark and another is going to be an individual one.
In this individual mark, the ideas given in the first activity and the correct participation in the development of the figures in the second task are going to be taken into account.
When evaluating each task we are going to value a lot of aspects.
- The correct execution of the framings, and the proportions of the shapes you have drawn: 33,33%
- Appropriate use of the chosen pictorial technique and care and correct use of the material and all the facilities of the center. 33.33%
- Creativity and originality developed in the task. We are going to consider the comments you have to submit.
EVALUATION OF THE CHALLENGE Once you have finished all the challenges, please, fill in the evaluation form of the challenge so we can improve the tasks and activities the next times. |